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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 KUALA LUMPUR 000994 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR ISN/ECC PVANSON, ACHURCH, KCROUCH, ROWEN 
DEPT FOR ISN/ECC/AMT LSPRINGER 
DEPT FOR EAP/RSP WCOMLEY, NDEAN, TFORSYTH, AFORSBERG 
CBP/INA FOR RWATT 
USDOE/NNSA FOR TPERRY 
DOC FOR PETERSEN-BEARD 
JAKARTA FOR MYAJNIK 
MANILA FOR VSANTOS 
SINGAPORE FOR MCLAUSEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP MY
SUBJECT: EXBS: SE ASIA REGIONAL ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING 
CABLE APRIL AND MAY 2007 
 
¶I. SUMMARY 
A Targeting and Risk Management course was conducted in 
Malaysia. EXBS Action Officer Rachel Owen visited Malaysia 
and Indonesia. A Model Ports Initiative survey was 
conducted in the Philippines in collaboration with 
Australian and Japanese government officials. An 
international Seaport Interdiction Training program was 
conducted in Indonesia. A bio- and chemical-security 
discussion took place between US Government and Government 
of Malaysia officials and a legal workshop was conducted in 
Malaysia intended to support Malaysia's drafting of an export 
control law. END SUMMARY 
 
II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD 
¶A. SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
¶1. On April 10 the Advisor met with Dr. Lauren Bain, 
Political Officer from the Australian High Commission, and 
Embassy POLOFF to discuss our respective ongoing export 
control program efforts in Malaysia. Ms. Bain informed us 
of her government's proposed regional MANPADS seminar 
slated for June 07-08 in conjunction with the USG and 
Government of Singapore (GOS). Ms. Bain indicated that she 
had been informed that the Government of Australia would 
issue invitations to the Government of Malaysia (GOM), but 
did not yet have any feedback from the GOM as to whether or 
not they would send representatives to the seminar. EXBS is 
partially funding the MANPADS seminar. 
 
¶2. EXBS Action Officer Rachel Owen visited Kuala Lumpur 
April 15-21 to meet with the Advisor and GOM officials 
involved in their export control program, and sit in on the 
Targeting and Risk Management (TRM) course Customs and 
Border Protection (CBP) personnel conducted. Ms. Owen then 
traveled to Indonesia to meet with and brief Embassy 
Jakarta and Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials on the 
EXBS program and to discuss proposed training initiatives. 
 
¶3. On April 18 the Advisor participated in a discussion 
held in Embassy KL with Australian and Japanese government 
officials as part of the ongoing tri-lateral initiative in 
the areas of counter-terrorism and export controls. The 
meeting, chaired by the US Deputy Chief of Mission and 
attended by his Japanese and Australian counterparts, 
included presentations on the various capacity-building 
training programs conducted in Malaysia by the three 
countries. The Advisor briefed the group on the status of 
USG export control efforts in Malaysia and the region. 
 
¶4. The Advisor traveled to Jakarta from April 30 to May 02 
to coordinate with ECONOFF Meeta Yajnik, Embassy Jakarta's 
point of contact for export controls, and to meet with GOI 
officials involved in their export control program. The 
Advisor met with Israhadi B.P., Head of the Sub-Directorate 
for Navigation, Department of Transportation; Ahmad Syafri, 
Deputy Director for Export and Import, Department of Trade; 
Erlangga Mantik, Director General of Customs and Excise; 
and Kamil Sjoeib, Director of International Affairs, 
Department of Customs. The meetings with GOI officials set 
up by Ms. Yajnik enabled us to make preparations for the 
initial EXBS program training to be delivered in-country, 
an ISIT, that was conducted May 21-25 by CBP personnel. 
 
¶5. On May 08 the Advisor met with Embassy Manila officials 
to brief them on proposed EXBS activities in the 
Philippines. The Advisor also participated in meetings set 
up by Ms. Valerie Santos of Embassy Manila with host 
government officials involved in export controls and 
discussed the upcoming Senior Policy Exchange scheduled for 
June 04-08. The Philippine officials we met with expressed 
interest in developing closer ties with the USG in export 
control cooperation. 
 
 
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¶6. During the period of May 09-11 the Advisor participated 
in a USG co-sponsored Model Ports Initiative survey 
conducted in the southern Philippines in conjunction with 
Australian and Japanese officials. Representatives from 
several USG agencies based in Embassy Manila and from 
Washington collaborated with their Australian and Japanese 
counterparts to review existing maritime security 
conditions at the ports of General Santos City and Davao on 
the island of Mindanao and provide recommendations for 
improving the situation. The survey will help form the 
basis for a cooperative effort by the US, Australian, and 
Japanese governments to enhance the capabilities of the 
Philippines government to stem the flow of illegal goods and 
people into and out of their country. 
 
¶7. On May 24 the Advisor, along with ECONOFF, accompanied 
Dr. Nancy Jackson, of Sandia National Laboratories, and Dr. 
Gregory Stewart, of State Department's ISN/CTR, to a 
meeting with GOM officials to discuss chemical security 
issues. Present at the meeting were representatives from 
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) CWC Authority and the 
Multilateral Political Division, Ministry of International 
Trade and Industry, Malaysian Chemical Institute, Science 
and Technology Research Institute for Defense, and the 
Southeast Asia Regional Center for Counter-Terrorism. 
Preparations for a regional chemical industry forum planned 
for August in Kuala Lumpur were discussed along with 
general chemical security concerns. Following the meeting 
with the MFA, Drs. Jackson and Stewart provided a debrief 
to Embassy KL personnel of their meetings with GOM 
officials. 
 
¶B. TRAINING CONDUCTED DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
¶1. Customs and Border Protection personnel delivered a 
Targeting and Risk Management training course to twenty-one 
GOM officials. Participating in the training were 
representatives from Royal Malaysian Customs, the Malaysian 
Maritime Enforcement Agency (Coast Guard), Port Authority, 
Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB), and the Ministry of 
International Trade and Industry. 
 
¶2. A group of nineteen GOI officials participated in an 
International Seaport Interdiction Training conducted by 
CBP personnel in Jakarta May 21-25. GOI agencies 
represented included Department of Customs, Ministry of 
Transportation, Immigration, Port Security Police, and 
Ministry of Trade. This training represents the initial 
EXBS-related training program to be conducted in Indonesia 
and was well received by the GOI participants. 
 
¶3. A legal workshop, conducted by the University of Georgia 
(UGA) under a grant from EXBS and with the participation of 
the Department of Commerce, was held in Kuala Lumpur May 
28-30. Fourteen lawyers and legal advisors from the 
Malaysian Attorney General's Chambers, MFA, Ministry of 
Internal Security, Ministry of Health, Royal Malaysian 
Customs, and the AELB were given an overview of 
comprehensive export control programs, along with detailed 
presentations on the various components of effective export 
control legislation. In addition to the fourteen 
"participants", as many as twenty additional GOM observers 
sat in on the three-day workshop. Discussions of export 
control programs in the US, United Kingdom, South Korea, 
Singapore, and other countries evolved into lengthy Q&A 
sessions where the Malaysian participants made use of the 
experience of the US facilitators. With recent developments 
in the status of Malaysia's own comprehensive export 
control legislation, the workshop came at an opportune time 
to share valuable insights and lessons learned with the 
GOM's legal professionals likely to be involved in the 
drafting of their law. The UGA team and Commerce did a 
great job with the workshop and have opened the door to 
 
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further USG participation as Malaysia begins the process to 
draft new legislation. 
 
¶4. Commodities Identification Training (CIT) planned for 
Malaysia the week of June 04-07 had to be canceled at the 
last minute due to an administrative mix-up on the part of 
the GOM. Alternate dates for the training are being 
considered. 
 
¶C. EQUIPMENT DELIVERED DURING REPORTING PERIOD 
NONE 
 
¶D. IMMINENT TRAINING OR EQUIPMENT STATUS UPDATE 
 
¶1. A Senior Policy Exchange with Philippine officials is 
scheduled for June 04-08 in Washington, DC. 
 
¶2. A regional MANPADS seminar, in collaboration with 
Australia and Singapore, is scheduled for June 07-08 in 
Singapore. 
 
¶3. Proliferation Awareness Training is planned for June 
27-28 in the Philippines. 
 
¶E. SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN EXPORT CONTROLS, 
NONPROLIFERATION, OR RELATED BORDER SECURITY 
 
Officials from Malaysia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
indicated in May that their draft of comprehensive export 
control legislation was being scrapped as unworkable; the 
draft has been bogged down in inter-agency review for more 
than ten months, with no end in sight. The legal workshop 
conducted in Kuala Lumpur May 28-30 was a definite success 
and may provide the needed background and overview of 
export control law for Malaysian lawmakers to move forward 
with a new or revised version of their export control 
legislation in the upcoming months. 
 
III. RED FLAG ISSUES 
NONE 
 
IV. Questions and comments can be directed to EXBS Program 
Advisor Richard Moody, telephone 6-03-2168-4861, fax 
6-03-2168-5165, cell phone 6-017-213-1965, and email 
moodyrl@state.gov. 
SHEAR